Lauki Pizza with Pesto

Name: Lauki Pizza with Pesto
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: For the pesto sauce:; 1/4 cup Dried Basil leaves:; 40 gms Mozzarella cheese:; 2-3 Garlic cloves:; Walnut: 1 tbsp. (broken into pieces); 2 tbsp Olive oil:; Black pepper as per taste; Salt as per taste; For the pizza:; 250 gms Lauki (Bottle Gourd):; Onion: 6-7 thin slices; Tomato: 6-7 thin slices; Cheese: 1 cube (8gms, grated); 1 tbsp Tomato ketchup:

Arti Mehta @cook_7706675

Gurgaon

This pesto sauce pizza is super healthy and delicious too.
Bottle gourd pizza is a great option for parties. Instead of using the pizza sauce, I used pesto sauce. I made the Pesto from walnuts, dried basil leaves, and mozzarella cheese. Fresh basil leaves are required for making the sauce but if you don’t have fresh basil, use the dried ones. The sauce is equally tasty.

Arti Mehta @cook_7706675

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Ingredients

For the pesto sauce:
1/4 cupDried Basil leaves:
40 gmsMozzarella cheese:
2-3Garlic cloves:
Walnut: 1 tbsp. (broken into pieces)
2 tbspOlive oil:
Black pepper as per taste
Salt as per taste
For the pizza:
250 gmsLauki (Bottle Gourd):
Onion: 6-7 thin slices
Tomato: 6-7 thin slices
Cheese: 1 cube (8gms, grated)
1 tbspTomato ketchup:

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Steps

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Prepare the pesto sauce: In a mixer grind together mozzarella, walnuts, dried basil leaves, and garlic. Add olive oil and grind again. Take out in a bowl and add salt and black pepper. Mix well. Pesto sauce is ready!
2

For the pizza: Peel the lauki and cut it into half lengthwise. Deseed it if the seeds are big else put some cross cut marks on the flesh.
3

Apply the pesto sauce on the lauki.
4

Put onion and tomato on it and then add grated cheese.
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Put few drops of tomato ketchup on each slice.
6

Preheat oven at 180° C. Keep the pizza slices in a baking dish and keep the dish inside the oven and bake for 40 minutes at 180°C or until the lauki becomes tender.
7

Sprinkle some oregano and chili flakes and serve hot.
8

Healthy “Lauki Pizza with Pesto” is ready!

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Arti Mehta @cook_7706675

on August 16, 2017 14:31

Gurgaon

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